News Release 05/17/09

Author Maxwell Cynn has updated the release of his popular eBook "CybrGrrl" under his own name. The book was originally released under the pen name "Jasmine Bale", a character from Mr. Cynn's "Ezekiel Strong" series. Both the MobiPocket and Kindle versions of the eBook …

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Friends with benefits

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Writing is a lonely thing at times. We toil in obscurity pouring our hearts out on the page. No one can help us do it. The words are in us, and must come through our hands. Friends can encourage us, offer suggestions, read our rough drafts, but they can not tell our …

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#queryfail > #agentfail > writers self publish

With all the current bad blood between agents and writers, and the belt tightening at publishers, the industry seems to be at a cross roads. Many writers are giving up on the quest for an agent and querying small presses directly. The big houses still demand to work …

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From Amazon:

One hundred semifinalists have been selected for the next round of the 2009 Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award. Each entry in the Top 100 has received a full manuscript review from Publishers Weekly, in addition to early customer reviews of excerpts posted …

Amazon Breakthrough Novel Awards: Quarter-Final Round

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March 16, 2009 (Monday) Amazon.com will post the excerpts presented by the 500 writers who made the quarter-final round. There were approximately 10,000 entries in ABNA this year, so it is a huge achievement to make this cut. It was decided based on the writers' …

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Why Kindle

Many of the new literary social networks that are popping up use the Amazon.com database to fill their book list, their author list, get cover art for your books, etc. If it is on Kindle it will be listed on all of those sites. They also give "buy" links to your book. …

New Year at The Underground Press

2008

It's been a great year. In 2008 the underground press stepped into the literary world with the release of my first book, ArchAngelxx. We set up an ASP.net 2.0 website, an on-line version of the book, and published an eBook through MobiPocket Books and Amazon.com's …

CybrGrrl Cover

We have the cover art complete for the eBook edition of CybrGrrl. The artist, and model, chosen is a photographer and entrepreneur in Second Life named Stella Stapleton: owner of Stella's Mall on Stella Island in Second Life. She is also a fellow blogger.

Author : Jasmine Bale

We are proud to announce an upcoming release from the underground press. We will soon be publishing the first of the CybrGrrl series by Jasmine Bale. Ms. Bale has written a very hot, very cutting edge novel about an emerging Artificial Lifeform: a sexy virtual companion …

Antivirus XP 2008

My son picked up a nasty little piece of malware the other day. It popped up like a normal windows warning message, the kind you see all the time. You click anything - ignore, OK, X, anywhere on the screen - it downloads and installs. Once you click the link to go to a …

ePublishing with PDF

One of the simplest ways to ePublish your manuscript is by saving it as a PDF document. These files can be uploaded to many of the websites that sell eBooks, they are compatible with most of the eBook Readers available, and they can easily be attached to an email or …

Hypertext Links in your eBook

The most basic structure of any HTML file is the division of paragraphs, the <p> tags. Next we divide sections and chapters with Headings, <h>. Simple enough. You can also use specific headings and set their style in a stylesheet by using numbers <h1>,<h2>,etc. Now we …

Basic HTML tags

If you convert your manuscript into an HTML file, and then open it in a basic text editor, you will notice a lot of confusing tags - those things within the <>. Most are not at all necessary to a basic web page. They are formatting tags. In HTML all formating of the …

Simple ePublishing

If you want to get your manuscript out to a wider audience it has never been easier to do. The most simple way is to post it here on Blogger. Sign up for a free blog, copy and paste your manuscript into the compose frame, hit publish, and you are on the Internet. Blogs …

Get New Eyes: Lots of Them

After you have perfected your manuscript, and it is as perfectly wonderful as you can make it, it is time for some new eyes. Yours are probably a bit blood shot by now. You have read your manuscript a hundred times. It gets to the point where you are really not reading …

Welcome

Welcome to the underground press blog. Here you will find news and opinions on the literary world: publishing, writing, reviews, comments, and tips. If you are a new writer trying to break into the industry, or an old pro, there is something here for you. I don't want …

Lament of days gone by

To try and get some more readers for the e-novel "ArchAngelxx" by Maxwell Cynn I am planning to reformat it and present it as a series on BlogSpot. I'm also going to propagate that blog to Maxwell's Virb blog and his MySpace page. That should make the story more …

Sugar Kitty

We almost lost our cat last week. She had been sick for a couple of weeks. It started with excessive drinking water, and of course flooding the litter box. Then she started throwing up. That only lasted a day or two but then she had no desire to eat or drink at all. She …

The Forsaken Companions: LotRO Kinship

I added something else to my plate recently. I am now the new leader of a guild in The Lord of the Rings Online MMORPG. I've been a member of the guild, The Forsaken Companions, for awhile now. They were started in Lotro during beta but they have chapters now in EQ2 and …

New music section on the Christian Underground Ministries website

I opened a new section on the Christian Underground Ministries website. It presents videos of Contemporary Christian music and some hard rock that you might not think of as "Christian Music" but that have meaningful themes/messages. I post, hopefully inspirational, …